Oahu resident Leslie Vincent Fullard-Leo, Hollywood actor, adventurer, businessman and owner of Palmyra Atoll, died in Honolulu on Feb. 1 at age 91.

Leslie Vincent Fullard-Leo acted under the name Leslie Vincent.

Fullard-Leo was a graduate of Punahou School and attended school in Winchester, England. As a young man, the athletic Fullard-Leo was also a noted swimmer and Alpine skier.

In the 1930s he worked his way to Asia on an ocean liner and lived in Shanghai for a year. He later returned to England, where he was one of the few Americans working on the stock exchange.

Fullard-Leo studied acting at the Royal Academy of London, and appeared more than 30 Hollywood movies in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, including "Pursuit to Algiers," "Forever Amber" and "In Harms Way." In Hollywood he performed under the name Leslie Vincent.

"Marlene Dietrich gave me my first big break in acting," he once said. The two met in France and became friends. Fullard-Leo landed a lesser role the famous 1939 film "Destry Rides Again," starring Dietrich.

Although he had major role as a young RAF pilot in the critically acclaimed "Paris Underground," a 1945 war film, Fullard-Leo didnt reach the Hollywood big time.

"He never made major film stardom," said his brother Ainsley Fullard-Leo. "He came close, but then the Palmyra thing came up and he had to drop out."

The "Palmyra thing" was a decades-long legal skirmish with the federal government over the ownership and use of the pristine Pacific atoll 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. The atoll was purchased by Fullard-Leos parents in 1922 for $15,000. But the government claimed title. Ultimately the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Fullard-Leo family.

Following his Hollywood career, Fullard-Leo headed a small hotel association on Oahu.

Fullard-Leo is survived by brothers Ainsley and Dudley Fullard-Leo, four nephews and one niece. Private service are pending.